| Her parents were a baron and baroness and they had an older son as well that was to inherit the fief. |
| That way, I would retain control of my own fief, and still have the man I loved. |
| The reward for his family was ennoblement and the right to exploit the canal as a fief with rights of seigneurial jurisdiction. |
| She was a Lady who was the wife of a Lord, not a Lady in her own right, of her own fief. |
| It is not, one presumes, the view of the French generals who currently treat the people and nation of Cote d' Ivoire as their fief. |
| I am the custodian of the faith and savings of 30,000 members and I can't turn it into a fief. |
